The NFL is letting players wear guardian caps, an extra protective cover over helmets, to keep players heads safer. The padding slips over the helmet to soften impacts by up to 33% according to ...

Certain players are also sporting unusually large, extra-padded helmets called Guardian ... as a "fully encompassed" soft-shell helmet. Pushback from football executives regarding the drastic ...

And it results from not just the traumatic impacts that cause concussions, but also the accumulation of smaller hits to the head that every football player endures. The extra padding of helmet ...

“You’re not modifying the helmets. It’s just something that attaches directly on. So why not just have that extra layer of protection?” Intuitively, putting more padding around a football ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NFL helmets have come a long way from ...

“I was so scared.” Mason was wearing a guardian cap, a helmet with extra padding that has been introduced to football in recent years in an effort to help thwart concussions, according to WPX ...

Football players (and anyone else who takes hard hits) may want to breathe a sigh of relief. Engineers at CU Boulder and Sandia National Laboratories have been hard at work researching and developing ...

NFL helmets have come a long way from the leather caps players wore in the league’s younger days. You may notice the latest advancements while watching games this season. We saw it for the first ...